maandag 14 oktober 2013

Integrity—It’s Care and Maintenance

As a “crawl-in” to this mission, you, by definition, have some pretty big handicaps. As you are asked to stumble out of your wheelchair and into an upright position, you may encounter some enticement to remain seated and rest on your handicapped privileges. Mission Control would like to take this moment to assist you to your feet. The biggest handicap that you suffer stems from the fact that this mission demands total integrity, while the cultures you represent demand little or none. The reason for this is that Earth cultures have one basic thing in common: They are all dysfunctional. Once a culture has decided which dysfunctional aspects it wishes to represent, it raises a flag to declare its
position, packages its preferred brand of dysfunctionality for
consumption at home and abroad, and passes it off as a national heritage
to be proud of and protected at all costs. Because you have to claim some nationality in order to get in here, none of you has been spared an identity that is at least a million light years and exactly 180 degrees off from the truth. The temptation to remain dysfunctional arises from the fact that it has been such a thorough and arduous journey getting there; somehow, it feels wasteful to just chuck it. Because of this illusion of waste, you may find yourself clinging to false identities or co-dependent relationships that prolong the recovery act. These double-dealing relationships, whether with yourself or others, are based on a dysfunctional complicity that thrives on an unstated request. That request can best be expressed as, “Please don’t disturb my sense of limitation. It may be Auschwitz, but it’s home.” The problem with maintaining this “pact” is that you cannot pass through the doors of the fifth dimension lugging dysfunctional baggage, and there is no handicapped parking nor any wheelchair access. All false identity must be relinquished at customs where your belongings will be rifled for contraband states of consciousness. These contraband states include dishonesty, manipulation, any and all feigned limping, refusing to relinquish your survival identity, and every hidden, unholy agreement that was made out of fear and denial. Mission Control is aware of the courage that realignment with the truth requires, but we are also aware that no one will be successful in any attempt to smuggle a lack of integrity across the frontier of the new incoming civilization. Be gentle with yourself and with others during the time of your rehabilitation, but also be scrupulous in this matter because there is no room for deception. And remember, giving up your crutches willingly now is far preferable to being busted at the border.